[Lazarus] TMysql57Connection won't connect to localhost

[Larry Dalton]

The error message reads :Project MoneyProject raised exception
class:'ESQLDatabaseError' with message:'CreateConnection:Server Connect
Failed."

On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 5:18 PM, larrydalton71 <larrydalton71 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Michael, am I missing an email? The only question I found was 'what was
> the error message?'. Thanks, Larry
>
>
>
> Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus <lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org>
> Date: 5/30/18 14:50 (GMT-05:00)
> To: larrydalton71 via Lazarus <lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org>
> Cc: Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org>
> Subject: Re: [Lazarus] TMysql57Connection won't connect to localhost
>
>
> Please take a look at my reply for questions that need to be answered
> before
> we can further help you.
>
> Michael.
>
> On Wed, 30 May 2018, larrydalton71 via Lazarus wrote:
>
> > So what settings do I need to use?
> >
> >
> > Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
> > -------- Original message --------From: wkitty42--- via Lazarus <
> lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> Date: 5/30/18  12:59  (GMT-05:00) To:
> lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org Cc: wkitty42 at windstream.net Subject: Re:
> [Lazarus] TMysql57Connection won't connect to localhost
> > On 05/29/2018 10:52 PM, larrydalton71 via Lazarus wrote:
> >> How does TMysql57Connection know how to connect to the server if there
> is no
> >> hostname defined?
> >
> >
> > because if there's no host name it will try using a unix socket defined
> for the
> > server... that /is/ local but not localhost and not using tcp/ip
> networking
> > protocols... it is another way to connect to a server running on the
> same machine...
> >
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